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"SF looks towards an imaginary future, while fantasy, by and large, looks towards an imaginary past."
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A unique, early use of this term and idea.
A bit of pseudoscience:
I slipped the paper-clip on it and stretched
it between the thumb and forefinger of my
hand. Then — feeling very foolish— I made
two ink-spots on the rubber. They were a
couple of inches from each other, with the
paper-clip in between.
The paper-clip represented the copper-glass-wire contrivance, and the ink-spots
two arbitrary places on the table. Then I
twisted the paper-clip so that it wound up
the rubber band about itself. It stretched.
The ink-spots approached each other. Presently they touched. Then I let go the paperclip and everything slipped back. They were
far apart again, with the clip in between.
That was it, exactly. Einstein has proved
that space is elastic. The rubber band was
also elastic. When the paper-clip — representing the weird object on the work-table —
wrapped the rubber band which represented
space about itself, why, presently there
wasn’t any rubber band or space between
the two dots. But when I released it, everything went back to normal and there was
space and a metal object between them.
The diamagnet wrapped space about it-
self. It absorbed space. The reason one’s
eyes hurt when looking at the place where
space had been absorbed was that they tried
to focus impossibly. Objects behind the vanished gadget were nearer than objects which
weren’t behind it. They hadn’t moved, of
course. But a certain amount of space — of distance — had been removed.
Compare to the worldcraft bubbles from Philip K Dick's The Trouble With Bubbles (1953). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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